Ukrainians based in UK gather military supplies to send to soldiers resisting Russian invasion

Ukrainians based in Britain are gathering military supplies and kit from army surplus shops to send to brave soldiers resisting Russian invasion.

Many also hope, even though they live steady, safe lives in the UK, of travelling back home to fight on the front lines.

One group in London has already formed a brigade to go back and fight.

GH Echelon Military Supplies, an Army surplus shop in Folkestone, Kent, saw a steady stream of young Ukrainian men and women who had come to see if they could purchase kit to be sent to fighters.

Vitalii Vovchuk, a 28-year-old construction driver who moved from Ukraine three years ago and lives with his wife in west London, came to the store in search of supplies.

He said: "We are also thinking to go ourselves but because we haven't been in army now they need people who already know how to fight, how to hold their arms, all that stuff.

"We will keep an eye and if they do training centres we will join them as soon as possible.

"We have to win this war and have to take our territory back, like Crimea and the occupied territories.

"Because this is our chance, you can see now it's the last days of Russia.

"It's the end of the big country, and it's coming to his [Putin's] end.

Filmed February 2022.